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Simulations as a Teaching Strategy

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Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Christian Miraglia, retired educator and now education consultant, goes into depth about simulations–what these are and how to use them. The article’s about 1000 words and well worth the read: Simulations as a Teaching Strategy – Everything You Need to Know. What is a Simulation?

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21 Top Professional Development Topics For Teachers Now

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Courses about Student Mental Health Strategies for Addressing Student Anxiety With the strategies and interventions you learn in this course, you will be able to create a classroom environment where students can successfully cope with stressors and instead focus on learning. How to Reach Students Who Have Experienced Trauma.

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10 Ways to Rejuvenate and Learn This Summer

The CoolCatTeacher

Check out these courses to help you: Becoming a Calm, Happy Teacher Self Care Strategies for Teachers Beyond Survival Mode: Maintaining Your Passion Throughout Your Teaching Career From Burnout to Productivity: Maintaining a Path for Teacher Wellness. As you do, consider how to bring these types of interests into your classroom.

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Your Device Rollout Isn’t About Hardware—It’s About Engagement

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A clear strategy is a must to drive student engagement effectively around a rollout to generate buy-in. Gamification is the idea of adding game-like elements to non-game contexts or environments—the classroom, for example. 47 percent improvement of active digital citizenship by students.

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20 Ways to Personalize Your Learning This Summer

The CoolCatTeacher

Research around the pedagogy of effective blended learning will help you understand how to effectively combine your physical classroom and your online classroom. Creating a Highly Engaging Lesson Plan “In this course, you will examine how to develop and execute highly engaging lesson plans regardless of what grade or subject you teach.

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10 Virtual Teaching Tips For Beginners

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Learn how to flip your classroom , and then leverage technology like Flipgrid to get students excited and empowered to share presentations every other week with their peers for formative feedback. Educators need to develop strategies to ensure their students come prepared to learn. Use gamification/contests. Dive into pedagogy.

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35 Take-aways from Summer 2016 Professional Development

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We experimented with some of the hottest tech tools available for the classroom such as Google Apps, differentiation tools, digital storytelling, visual learning, Twitter, blogs, Common Core and tech, digital citizenship, and formative assessment options. They wanted to get it right, see how it worked. How to use GHO.